Fighting nears Baghdad as UN warns crisis ‘life-threatening’
Iraqi officials have insisted they are making progress in repelling the fighters,…
Bomb kills 11 as Afghan election contestants claim fraud
Eleven voters in the western province of Herat had their fingers –…
50,000 children facing death in war-torn South Sudan: UN
War in the young nation has already killed thousands and forced more…
Obama rules out sending troops as cleric calls Iraqis to arms
Washington spent billions of dollars training and equipping Iraqi security forces before…
UN High Commissioner condemns activists’ sentencing
Verdict fails to meet international fair trial standards, says UN Human Rights…
Suspected jihadists seize Iraq’s Nineveh province
Military units first withdrew from the city’s east, heading to its west,…
Climate change, diminishing of conventional energy, and economy growth
By Eng. Hisham Farouk Mostafa In 2001, the German government greeted delegates from…
Letter by NGO urges UN to address human rights in Egypt
11 rights groups send concerns to the Human Rights Council
10,000 people displaced in Ukraine since start of crisis: UN
For the most part, the 10,000 people have been internally displaced –…
Egypt to manage UN nuclear arms debate
Egypt’s UN representative in Geneva to push for Nuclear Weapons Free Zone…
